David Amess killing: MPs discuss security arrangements following death – as it happened

Latest updates on the aftermath of the killing of the Conservative MP Sir David Amess on Friday

Wes Streeting, the Labour MP for Ilford North, said politicians need to take their security more seriously in the wake of the killing of David Amess.

He said:

The uncomfortable truth that lots of us are wrestling with is that if someone wants to attack you in this way, they will do it and there is a risk that comes with this job.

MPs are having really difficult conversations with their families this weekend about the risk that we carry, about whether it's worth it, and what we might do to make sure that we're keeping ourselves, our staff and our families safe.

I can recall in my six years as an MP one moment when I thought that a constituent might hit me in my advice surgery, but most of the time people are coming to you for help, and you deal with people in advice surgeries who are distressed, who are having a really hard time - that's why we really want to protect those advice surgeries.

If I could say one thing to the politicians who will come after me, it would be this: Jo's words now written on the wall of the House of Commons - More in Common" - are not there to remind you what she said. They are an organising instruction. They are there to tell you how to move our country on.

I know many people will find it hard to understand how the bickering they see from us correlates with that instruction. Can it really be the case that the political world forever at war with itself could be any good at bringing people together? True, it is hard sometimes but the answer is not to give up, and David never did, on any of the many campaigns he ran. The answer is to listen more. Think hard about where others are coming from. Empathy, understanding, compassion. These are the skills that make our politics function.